United States – of original Blériot XI aircraft are thought to be the two oldest flyable aircraft in the world. The Blériot XI, largely designed by Raymond...
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was the first of five children born to Clémence and Charles Blériot. In 1882, aged 10, Blériot was sent as a boarder to the Institut Notre Dame in Cambrai...
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Aéronautique Louis Blériot" (Louis Blériot Aeronautical Research) at Courbevoie in March 1909. Blériot V Blériot VI Blériot VII Blériot VIII Blériot XI as first...
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List of aircraft (pre-1914) (section Bleriot XI)
Eindecker II Blériot XI Artillerie Blériot XI Ecole Blériot XI Militaire Blériot XI R1 Blériot XI REP Blériot XIbis Blériot XI-2 Artillerie Blériot XI-2 BG Blériot...
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spring of 1910, Moisant took four flying lessons at the Blériot School, headed by Louis Blériot, in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, beginning his short...
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one of which powered Louis Blériot's 1909 cross-channel flight. An Anzani three-cylinder engine that powers a Blériot XI operated by The Shuttleworth...
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and also including Louis Forest. They brought with them two aircraft, a Blériot XI monoplane and a Sommer 1910 biplane, which had been shipped overseas from...
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The Blériot VIII was a French pioneer era aeroplane built by Louis Blériot, significant for its adoption of both a configuration and a control system that...
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angry mother eagle over the Pyrenees. Gilbert, flying an open-cockpit Blériot XI, was able to ward off the large bird by firing pistol shots at it but...
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with fellow French aviator Louis Blériot popularizing Esnault-Pelterie's control format initially on Louis' Blériot VIII monoplane in April 1908, and...
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Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the United States in a Blériot XI on September 23, 1911. He carried a sack of mail from Nassau Boulevard...
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died in 1910 after a heavy wind broke the wings of his fragile airplane Bleriot XI, falling from a twenty-meter height upon landing, after achieving the...
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airplane flight across the English Channel: was completed by Louis Blériot in a Blériot XI on July 25, 1909, to win a £1,000 Daily Mail prize. First animal...
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joystick and rudder bar. It was an important predecessor of his later Blériot XI Channel-crossing aircraft of the summer of 1909. World War I served as...
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Blériot were tested on 18 July, the flight of Blériots aircraft ending in a crash in which Voisin, the pilot, was nearly drowned. Voisin and Blériot then...
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full-scale or 3/4 replica of the French Blériot XI 1909 pioneer aircraft that was designed by Louis Blériot and used to fly across the English Channel...
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to the Blériot XI aircraft in which he made the first flight across the English Channel. Abandoning the canard layout of the Blériot V, Blériot and his...
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C.XV Albatros D.III Albatros D.V Aviatik B.I Avro 504 Avro Anson Blériot XI Blériot-SPAD S.51 Bristol Beaufighter Bristol Beaufort Bristol Blenheim Bristol...
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Pioneer Era aircraft, such as the Wright Flyer and the later, 1909-origin Blériot XI and Etrich Taube, lateral control was effected by twisting the outboard...
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France 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup.: 37–38 24 August 1909 Louis Blériot 46.160 74.318 Blériot XI : 13 28 August 1909 47.823 76.995 : 13 23 April 1910 Hubert...
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Calais to Dover. Body possibly found on March 14, 1911. June 5, 1911 Blériot XI 1 (Édouard Bague) Unknown North Atlantic Ocean (Mediterranean, near Cap...
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carried by French pilot Maurice Guillaux. On July 16–18, 1914, he flew his Blériot XI aircraft from Melbourne to Sydney, a distance of 584 miles (940 km), carrying...
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regularly starts with a flight demonstration of vintage aircraft such as the Blériot XI and Stearman. It is then usually followed with an aerobatic and pyrotechnic...
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primitive ailerons, and made a few more flights. The next year Louis Blériot flew the Blériot VII, a tractor monoplane with full three-axis control using the...
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The Blériot XXI was an early French aircraft built by Blériot Aéronautique. The aircraft was a shoulder-wing monoplane powered by a 52 kW (70 hp) Gnome...
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Squad, the first Serbian air combat unit, with 4 airplanes (Blériot XI one-seater, Blériot XI two-seater, Deperdussin TT and Farman HF.20) and 5 pilots...
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July – Louis Blériot achieves a flight of over 26 miles (42 km) in just over 47 minutes. 12 July – Flying the Blériot XII, Louis Blériot makes the world's...
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Société pour l'aviation et ses dérivés (redirect from Blériot-SPAD)
fully incorporated into the Blériot organisation in 1921, and the company effectively disappeared, although a number of Blériot types were marketed as SPADs...
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Aerodrome possesses a flyable Anzani-powered one-seater Blériot XI, which bears the Blériot factory's serial number 56, showing that it was manufactured...
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living aviation museum, Cole Palen, had the remains of a 1910-vintage Blériot XI aircraft donated to him by one Bill Champlin of Laconia, New Hampshire...
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